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Developmental and Clinial Baby
Research Head: Dr. Babett Voigt, Dr. Carolin Konrad |
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Principal Investigator and Team
Prof. Dr. Silvia Schneider
Prof. Dr. Albert Newen
Samantha Ehli, M.Sc.
Dr. Babett Voigt
Collaborator
Funding
DFG-Graduiertenkolleg "Situated Cognition", GRK-2185/1
Duration
June 2017 – May 2020
Description
In daily life, infants are
often faced with ambiguous situations. Literature suggests that during these
situations, infants usually increase their looking behaviour towards social
partners (social referencing, SR). The ‘situated cognition’ framework claims
that infants’ SR varies with social context features, such as familiarity of the
social partner. Accounts, like the social-cognitive account and the
co-regulation account, about the functions of SR diverge in their predictions on
how familiarity influences infants’ SR. Our aim is elucidating SR’s function in
infancy by examining SR patterns, affectivity and exploratory behaviour in
situations of different levels of threat and with social partners of different
familiarity.